PETERSTON SUPER ELY COMMUNITY CONSULTATION CREATIVE RURAL COMMUNITIES

Community engagement Peterston Super Ely consultation summary report (final)

Peterston Super Ely Community Consultation

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Creative Rural Communities, the rural regeneration team from the Vale of Glamorgan Council, organised a community consultation for Peterston Super Ely held during the monthly Peterston Market in the Community Hall on Saturday 11th February 2012. It was an opportunity for local people to have their say about the community they live in and propose project ideas that they could possibly progress to benefit of the community. Creative Rural Communities has several funding opportunities and officers can help sign post groups and project ideas for funding where possible.

The event was advertised in the local shop, and pubs and a flyer was posted through every house holds door. Creative Rural Communities also e-mailed local contacts as well as the community council who were asked to circulate the information and information was posted on the Creative Rural Communities Facebook page.

The consultation was held during the monthly Saturday morning market in the Church Hall, a regular event that takes place within the village. The monthly market is well attended by the community of Peterston Super Ely and the organisers noted an increase in the number’s attending due to the community consultation taking place. On this morning over 100 people attended the market and 51 people completed questionnaires.

Thoughts and ideas were gathered in two ways.

Post-it notes asking people what they loved and what they could change about Peterston Super Ely.
A short questionnaire asking for project ideas they could help with and their contact details.

It is important to note that Peterston Super Ely is fortunate to have a number of strong community organisations including the Church Hall Committee, Cyswllt Peterston Connect and Peterston Play Station.

Key points that emerged from the community consultation:

51 questionnaires were completed, the following projects were raised by people who filled in the questionnaire. People were able to make several recommendations;

44 people mentioned the need for improvements to be made to the playing fields and/or the playground - 28 people referenced the need to upgrade the play area and 16 people referred to the need for improvements to the playing field. 5 people specifically mentioned the need for a track/path in the playing field
13 people mentioned the need for improvements to footpaths, for community safety and general improvements as well as opening up new footpaths
12 people mentioned allotments/Growing Space, 3 specified a community orchard
11 people mentioned the need for a general village tidy up including painting and seating
11 people mentioned the need cycle paths e.g. Ely trail & St Fagan’s
11 people mentioned the need for a train station in the village
10 people mentioned the need for the continuation of the bus service
10 people mentioned the need for a village web site to help with communication in the community
10 people mentioned the need for improved communication with the Community Council
9 people mentioned the need for reducing traffic speed for community safety
Several people mentioned the need for safe road crossings and parking restrictions

When asked “What I love about Peterston Super Ely” people said the following;

8 people mentioned the community spirit; to the lovely, friendly people and “lots going on” / “happenings”
5 people mentioned the natural environment & countryside,
3 people specified the church hall
2 people commented on the peace and quiet.
2 people mentioned the school

What can you do to help?

There were offers of assistance from those who completed the questionnaires from experience and knowledge to digging and fund raising, many replied ask and we will see what we can do.

Next Steps:

Creative Rural Communities the rural regeneration team from the Vale of Glamorgan Council supported Peterston Super Ely to complete this community consultation. We hope this report aids the village in developing new projects for the community.

Creative Rural Communities is able to assist in signposting to funding sources that may be able to support the types of projects suggested by the community in this report. In addition support and funding streams Creative Rural Communities currently has available includes:

Community Foodie- is a project to identify, develop and support community food growing. Rob McGhee is the project officer from Creative Rural Communities and is currently working with Peterston Connect group to explore the potential of food growing space in the area. If you are interested in this work please contact Rob on 01446 704835 or e mail [email protected].

Pride in your Villages which is a grant scheme that can to support physical capital improvements to village’s for further information contact Jane Williams on 01446 704755 or e mail [email protected].

Through Pride in our Services there is a footpaths officer who may be able to help, contact details Mark Cottray 01446 704645 or [email protected]

As Creative Rural Communities is part of the Vale of Glamorgan Council we will also feed back the information provided regarding roads, footpaths and transport to the relevant council departments.

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PETERSTON SUPER ELY COMMUNITY CONSULTATION ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ CREATIVE RURAL COMMUNITIES

Community engagement Peterston Super Ely consultation summary report (final)

PETERSTON SUPER ELY COMMUNITY CONSULTATION CREATIVE RURAL COMMUNITIES